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We LOVE brain breaks in My Literacy Space because it helps to refresh our thinking and reset our emotions. One of the easy ones I made this weekend is a @minutetowinit activity. I filled up a suitcase (from @playmobil ) with sparkly white and blue pompoms and we are pretending they are snowballs. Then using plastic tweezers and a cup, my students have 1 minute to see how many snowballs they can grab. Little do they know they are working on fine motor skills such as their pincer grasp, crossing midline, as well as focus and speed. We did a best of 3 and they counted and recorded their totals each round. The high score so far is 37 snowballs! (It also doubles as a great sensory bin for hiding our reading cards too!)
Tell me below what Minute to Win It challenges you have used in your classroom!
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Usually it's the simple self-guided and imaginative play that wins out

Starting the week with a grateful heart 💗 and adding some color with this cute Turkey Paper Plate Craft 🦃 Wishing you a happy Thanksgiving week ahead! Are you staying in and hosting or traveling? We will be heading to my sister’s family for a feast. .
Tutorial on our site link in profile search “Turkey Paper Plate.” #hellowonderfuldiy .
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Wow!! What a fantastic afternoon. 3 completely different classes, 3 completely different sets of parents and children all who played and explored in different ways.
All the equipment got thoroughly put through its paces either teaching new skills or helping to refine skills. And that’s what it’s all about, working through activities to promote a love for learning, building confidence and letting kids be kids.
Of course, a massive thank you and well done to all the parents who came along today. You were amazing too! You played, encouraged, gently coaxed and praised effort throughout!
Giving your little one time and space to learn. .
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PlayDoh @playdoh Splat! This is great for your littles that are still learning basic colors. As for my 4 year old- he loves any game where he can “hammer” and win! I took a color dice from one of our other games. You can easily make a dice using dot stickers for the colors. My little helped me roll the PlayDoh into little balls. We took turns rolling the dice and splatting the balls. The second time we played, we added a challenge. We used the PlayDoh letter stamps to stamp our “splat”. When their were no more green/red/yellow/blue left...you lost your turn if you rolled that color. We used the mallet for the first game then switch to using our fist. (If you do not have the stamps, you could use colored toothpicks to mark your splat!) I look forward to seeing how you adapt this game to meet your child’s needs! #toddler#toddlergames#preschoolgames#counting#playdoh#finemotor#finemotorskills#learningcolors#preschoolteacher#preschool#preschoolactivities#preschoolathome#toddleractivities

We decided to put off getting him a tablet, and bought this old peg board instead. I know a lot of babies his age already know how to navigate a phone but we thought it was best to develop fine motor skills first. .
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This is a simple toy, basically you can stack them, and organize them. At first he struggled just putting the pegs back in the holes, now he is stacking them into big towers! He will go pick up the box, open it and start playing all on his own. 💓 .
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We want to limit screen time or even better none at all ,but that's just not realistic. 😛 I have the phone or tablet with me all the time it's like our other child! 😩 Bayani sees that and really wants to play with it. We've had a lot of melt downs after we have taken it away. I know the world he's going grow up in will be way different than mine was. I just want to have a balance of technology and old traditional hands on. Toys that need more imagination and problem solving rather than just constant stimulation. When he's older we plan on getting him a tablet. Parents what age do y'all think is best for that 🙆❔
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Op shop Stacker ✨
Having a wee try of our new colourful stacker. We stumbled across this in an opshop and what a find it was. Total of $4 from memory. It’s got various levels which makes it different from our other stackers. So many learning opportunities too... colour recognition, shape awareness, counting, height, fine motor!
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• Mason’s age: nine months
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It’s Thanksgiving week! Instead of making the usual hand-tracing turkey, why not let the little ones use their imagination (and fine motor skills!) to make a colorful turkey creation 🌈 and while we’re all about themed play, Thanksgiving is also a time for gratitude, reflection and love. So take some time this week to read to your children a book like Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message by Chief Jake Swamp. More than ever, we need to teach our kids to take care of the earth and give thanks to it for all that it gives to us. Grateful for the opportunity to educate on the things that matter most 🍂💛🌎
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A very simple and easy set up of thanks giving - a rainbow turkey!
I wrote ' 感恩节快乐' '感恩節快樂' on the stickers so M can stick them on accordingly by reading and also through the sequence of rainbow. Love how his little pincer grasp work on getting the stickers in the video and how he reads while he sticks!
Yet this simple game took us 3 breakfasts to finish it. The first time, M sticks the red and orange but he wanted to put on blue next. Yet I told him that the instruction is to make a rainbow turkey and by reading the words, it will not have any meaning since the words are messed up. Both of us basically insisted out way Nd end up we put it on hold. The second day, I asked him again and he insisted blue should come nexy. So we put it aside again since we couldn't come to an agreement.
Finally, on the third day, I changed my mindset and told him he can do anything he wants, then he asked me if the blue is wrong (which I know he knows the answer), but instead of telling him that is wrong, I told him he can stick blue at where he think how rainbow should look like. To my surprised, he starts counting and then he starts to stick the blue one on the right position. Then he looks pleased with it and finally we managed to finish it according to the colours he like next but at the right space for a rainbow. (You can see in the first video, our 'yellow' is empty as that's the last colour he puts up)
Sometimes it does take a little while for me (adults) to look at a different way and accept what the child(ren) wanted to do, and this little game had reminded me to be thankful for M who continuously make me a better person! More open mind, more patient, and more trust!